Under the witness of H.E. the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region Mr Edmund Ho Hau Wah and the Minister of Tourism of Malaysia, Mr Adnan Tengku Mansor, the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) and Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop and strengthen mutual cooperation in tourism.

Director of MGTO Mr Joa~o Manuel Costa Antunes and Director General of MTPB Dato’ Mirza Mohammad Taiyab, signed the MOU at the opening ceremony of the Malaysia-Macau Economic Cooperation Seminar, held today (April 12) at Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur.

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The Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macau is expected to receive between 24 and 25 million visitors this year, the director of Tourism Services, João Costa Antunes, said Tuesday in Macau.

Speaking to journalists at the end of a meeting to analyze the sector, Costa Antunes said that in the first two months of the year, Macau had received over 4 million visitors or around 20 percent more than in the same year-ago period.
In 2006 Macau had 21.98 million visitors, as compared with 18.7 million in 2005.
Strong growth of the Macau tourism market, which has seen its number of visitors triple since its administration was handed back to China by Portugal in December 1999, has been driven by the higher spending power of Chinese tourists.

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Imagine the night sky of Macau glowing in a myriad of magnificent fireworks and accompanied by the cheers and applauses of spectators enjoying the impact of the light and sound show. What a splendid scene! Program for visitors here…

The annual “Macau International Fireworks Display Contest” not only lights up the nights of Macau, but also the hearts of spectators. Local residents long for the marvelous fireworks displays that add a joyous atmosphere to holidays and festivals.

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A good place, but also a very though and competitive one too! One must realize that Macau only has a population of +/-500,000, so it is relatively a small market.

Surely the opening of some 20+ new casino’s and desitination-resorts may make it all a little more attractive, as by then Macau hopefully may have about 150,000 visitors a day.

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The per-capita spending of visitors in Macao reached 1,468 patacas (183.5 U.S. dollars) in the second quarter, a year-on-year rise of 10 percent, according to official statistics issued Thursday.

The figures released by the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that visitors from the Chinese mainland took the lead on the expenditure list with 2,875 patacas (359 U.S. dollars).

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This trend is encouraging news as it means that travelers from Mainland China and Taiwan are becoming savvier and are less afraid to travel on their own. This must be good news to the developers who are building major Casino Destination Resorts on the Cotai Strip.

However as Year-to-Year the numbers are still up 17.6%, one could wonder if this the start of a declining trend in in-coming package tours. It also was interesting to note that the number of Macau resident out-going package tours is up by 23% for the same period.

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Comment - As reported by DailyTravelNews | Good to see that this important campaign went of to a good start. Best wishes to our first winner from Hong Kong!

Full report by DailyTravelNews - A visitor from Hong Kong won a golden miniature of the Ruins of St Paul’s at the first monthly lucky draw of the “Macau Heritage Passport” campaign held at the lobby of Macau Business Tourism Centre (MBTC). The  “Macau Heritage Passport” campaign is organized by the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) and sponsored by the Macau Foundation. Officiating the draw were MGTO Director Joao Manual Costa Antunes, Deputy Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes and Administration Council Member of Macao Foundation Lei Song Fan.

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An article about Macau Tourism

The number of visitors to Macau continues to rise and after settling at 18.7 million in 2005, it is expected that 20 to 21 million people will visit in 2006. Antunes estimated that in the first half of the year alone more than 10 million people visited the territory.

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